Locality type:

Massif

Classification

Species:

Spinel

Formula:

MgAl₂O₄

Confirmation

Validity:

Believed Valid

Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:

Forsterite

ⓘ3 photos of Spinel associated with Forsterite at this locality.

Calcite

ⓘ3 photos of Spinel associated with Calcite at this locality.

Azoproite

ⓘ2 photos of Spinel associated with Azoproite at this locality.

Data

Mineral Data:

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Locality Data:

Click here to view Tazheranskii Massif, Lake Baikal area, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia

Data Identifiers

Mindat Occurrence Record ID:

108522

Long-form Identifier:

1:3:108522:8

GUID (UUID V4):

8df01d86-42a6-4382-83d8-ecd1feb9865d

Nearest other occurrences of Spinel

5.4km (3.4 miles)

ⓘ Shirokaya Valley, Lake Baikal area, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia

14.3km (8.9 miles)

ⓘ Turpan peridotite, Ol’khon ophiolite, Lake Baikal area, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia

17.5km (10.8 miles)

ⓘ Tog peridotite, Ol’khon ophiolite, Lake Baikal area, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia

21.4km (13.3 miles)

ⓘ Birkhin gabbro massif (Ozernovskii), Narin-Kunta, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia

References

Sklyarov, E.V.

Karmanov, N.S.

Lavrenchuk, A.V.

Pekov, Igor V. (1998) Minerals first discovered on the territory of the former Soviet Union. Ocean Pictures, Moscow. 369pp.

Starikova, A. E., Stepanov, K. M., & Timina, T. Y. (2017). Crystal-rich inclusions in spinels from calciphyres of Tazheran massif (Western Baikal region, Russia). In Magmatism of the Earth and related strategic metal deposits (pp. 271-274).

Sklyarov, Eugene V., Karmanov, Nikolai S., Lavrenchuk, Andrey V., Starikova, Anastasia E. (2019) Perovskites of the Tazheran Massif (Baikal, Russia) Minerals, 9 (5) 323 doi:10.3390/min9050323

Sklyarov, Eugene V., Andrey V. Lavrenchuk, Anna G. Doroshkevich, Anastasia E. Starikova, and Sergei V. Kanakin. (2021) "Pyroxenite as a Product of Mafic-Carbonate Melt Interaction (Tazheran Massif, West Baikal Area, Russia)" Minerals 11, no. 6: 654. https://doi.org/10.3390/min11060654

Sklyarov, Eugene V., Kargopolov, Sergei A., Lavrenchuk, Andrey V., Pushkarev, Evgenii V., Semenova, Dina V. (2023) Geology, Petrology, and Mineralogy of Hornfels-like Rocks (Beerbachite) in the Early Paleozoic Olkhon Collisional Orogen (West Baikal Area, Russia) Minerals, 13 (11) doi:10.3390/min13111370

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Spinel from Tazheranskii Massif, Lake Baikal area, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia

Spinel from
Tazheranskii Massif, Lake Baikal area, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia